fuel disposal

[Fr. Frank]

I'm the poster to this thread originally .An update , I drained the gas and it looked and smelled just like some fresh gas that I had. I mixed about 10 gals in my truck tank with 7 gals of gas already in the truck .What a F - up
The truck cranked and drove for about 2 mins . It spits , jumps ,coughs and every other noise you can think of.It will not continue to run when you put it in gear .I am an Idiot , my wife laughs at me , This really sucks

Yeah, did the same thing when I was a teenager with my car. But I had 300 gallons of 4 year-old gas out of my grandfather's Rybovich. Here's what my grandfather had me do: I went out and purchased a gallon of pure grain rubbing alcohol and a quart of naptha, and mix them into a 5 gallon jerry can with fresh gas, then pour that into the tank of my '66 Olds 442. I pulled the carb and cleaned it out with Gumout, then back-flushed the fuel lines with Gumout. Then I installed a Mercruiser water-separating fuel filter on the firewall, and ran the fuel line through it. I then mixed ten gallons of grain alcohol and 2 gallons of naptha into the remaining 280 gallons of gas.

My grandfather said he learned that trick back in the early days of WWII when the gas being distributed to civilians in the Keys was often the old military stock-piled stuff, which the Navy got rid of in favor of the new higher-octane gas. JFTR, I burned the rest of that old gas without a hiccup afterwards. (Of course, 97% pure grain alcohol - that's ethanol based, not isopropyl which may be methanol - could be purchased from the Rite-Aid drugstore back then for only 70 cents a gallon)